Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. One of America's most popular and beloved poets, Frost wrote of the people and landscape of New England. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943 and was appointed the Poet Laureate of Vermont. Frost died in 1963.

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